My profession luckily one of tonights guests does so its my great pleasure to introduce barbara and kate White Barbara butcher is the former chief of staff, director of the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the new York City Office of chief medical examiner. Only the second woman hired as death investigator in manhattan and the first to last more than three months during her three years there, she investigated more. Than 5500 death scenes. She also created and directed the federally funded Forensic Sciences training at o. C. M. E. Taught at the New York University of medicine and new york medical college, consulted for governmental agencies around the world, and spoken at planning conferences across the united states. She joins us tonight with what the dead now learning about life as a new york city investigator and it she into the journey that led to her unlikely career revealing some surprising surprisingly life lessons and stories about some of new yorks most notorious crime sce
Cross. Online at cspan. Org. We are going to leave for live coverage of todays House Small Business Committee meeting on sba management and its administrator Maria Contrerassweet testifies. It should get underway in just a moment. An audible conversations [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. I call this hearing to order and i want to welcome back the smallbusiness administrator area contrerassweet. I think everyone here wants the same thing and that is to serve americas Small Businesses the best we can. Those of us up here on the dais have an advantage. Our constituents let us know how we are doing all the time on an ongoing basis. As the head of an agency i sometimes worry that too often you mostly hear from your own folks and from other washington bureaucrats. Thats the only explanation for why the 69 gao identified concerns and problems that havent been addressed. Yesterday wasnt the first time that these issues have been raised. Yesterday we heard some
Metropolitan guy and he could not believe people could live on the farm with cows and neal couldnt believe living in a city like new york where you rub elbows all of the time. Host it was great talking to you. Guest and people should know you as cureerator for the smithsonian. Thank you for interviewing me. That was booktvs Signature Program in which authors are interviewed by people familiar with their material. It airs at 10 p. M. At saturday and 10 and 9 on sunday. You can watch it online as well. Go to booktv. Org and click on the upper right part of the page under topics. On the next washington journal we will discuss the militarys response to isis with clinton watts. After that we will continue looking at political campaigning leading up to this falls election. Our guest is rob and linda lake and we will talk about how campaigns manage an election. Thursday night on booktv in prime time a look at the book industry starting with a tour of publishers and then a panel from a book fe
Astronaut dreams. She wanted to be a scientist a tennis player. When that did not work out and was right back to science. She was totally committed to being a scientist, was quite sure she would be an academic all of her life and do research. And one day she went to stanford, got her undergraduate, masters, and ph. D. And in january of 1977 she is finishing her last year of a phd thesis. She goes to the stanford Student Union in order to five shifts a cup of coffee and doughnut to wake up before she goes to class. She says down and picks up a copy of the stanford daily. There above the fold as an article, big headlines the says nasa to recruit one. Celeries the article, raise the requirements an application. This is the one who was dead set on being an academic. She totally new what she was going to do for the rest of her life. She pivots, turns on a dime and a totally changed to life. Some 25,000 people also sentence for that particular application. A little over 8,000 actually applie
Marge said this is ridiculous. You are going into space. I cant go to the cape. What is going on out there . She tells him that hed better drive her out there and he hides her under some blankets in the back of his car and they go past military guards and she gets out there and pops up her hat and it is sort of a lonely beach jetties and scrub brush and what not. The whole country is dying for a cigarette. This is the kind of spunk and irreverence that these women brought to this brave new world of being an astronaut wife. You have seven women, all different walks of life, allen sheppards wife louise was very highbred. I think of her as the sabrina and audrey have removed character. She drew up as the gardeners daughter at longwould gardens and stayed on the east coast so when she met Jackie Kennedy she almost treated jackie like she was an old friend, they were two private school girls almost, getting to know each other. You have this band forming, these women are in the public eye an